Hyperbole. I leveled all the classes to t4 (never used the book) and din't see "tons" of AMs or SHs twinks. Sure, there were some that were a pita if you encountered them 1v1, but if you have bad gear it is generally a bad idea to be soloing in the first place anyway. If you were in a group, they weren't that much of a problem.Telen wrote:There were tons of archmages and squig herders that just stayed in t3 forever. Farmed for bugged souls had tons of high level consumables bought with gold from their rr100 and had a ridiculous advantage over new players.Penril wrote:I disagree. Money was only useful if you wanted to twink yourself for T1 (buying lvl 10- gear that no longer dropped and therefore was really expensive). With the book, non-rich players were able to stop at lvl 15 and twink themselves by farming T2 zones, in the end having much better characters than rich lvl 10 endless-trial twinks.
However, this didn't happen that much; most people twinked in T3. And pretty much everyone was able to farm LotD for weapons and a backpiece+jewel combo. Not to mention many people stayed there until at least rr70 (Worn Sov) therefore entering T4 being competitive and not just cannon fodder for all the 90+ "pros".
TL;DR: The book was awesome for new players.
And both sides balanced each other; i had a Magus with LotD shinies (nasty damage bonus) and i would always focus enemy twinks first (and they would focus me as well). Fun times.
